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Strelley Hall Ghost Hunt with Ciaran okeeffe – August 2014.
Strelley Hall
Nottingham – Strelley Hall
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Date: 15th August 2014
Time: 9pm – 2am
Address:
Strelley Hall
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG8 6PE
Day: Friday
Price: £30
http://ukghosthunts.com/nottingham-strelley-hall-p-68.html
Deposit: £15 – £15 To be paid to the group on the night of event.
Cairan o’Keeffe From The Popular Program “Most Haunted” Will Be Joining Ukgh On This Evening At Strelley Hall In Nottingham
Strelley Hall in Nottingham is a period building in Strelley, Nottingham. The Hall was originally built as a castle around 1200 AD and was modified in the early late 18th century and again in the 19th century.
Strelley Hall’s history dates back to the Saxon times, and has even been the subject of an archaeological dig, uncovering historical artefacts and dating most of the masonary in the range of 1250 to 1350.
There are many original features of the building including The Castle Room, thought to be part of the ancient tower, and the Panelled Room, dating back to Georgian times. There are also dungeons to explore as well as a vast cellar, with dark corners and foreboding feelings
Nicholas Strelley was the last member of the family to own the Hall, because in 1678 he gambled it away and eventually the Hall and estates passed to Ralph Edge, a lawyer. There is a family tree kept near to The Castle Room which shows the generations of Strelleys from the time when they took the estate around 1200 through to the period when they lost the estate in 1678, to the present day.
It isn’t just the hall that has such history attached to it; the surrounding area is also steeped in history. Strelley Village was a thriving industrial town in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was one of the first areas to be exploited for coal, and there are remnants of many bell pits around the village.
The Gate Lodge has some medieval walls, particularly those abutting the road. The formation of the walls is similar to the Church, indicating it may have been constructed at a similar time. At the north end of the car park at the front of the main building is The Dungeon. It was used to imprison people, mainly poachers but other criminals were definitely imprisoned there.
There is so much history to this building, but to fully appreciate the magnificence of it you have to explore its cellars, dungeon and rooms. This building has never been investigated, but with a history dating back to the 1200s, who can tell what spirits or ghosts walk within these ancient walls?
What we can tell you is that Nicholas Strelley put a curse on gambling at Strelley and was believed to have visited Strelley at nights, uninvited after he lost the estates. His appearances caused some serving wenches to lose their minds and it is they who are believed to haunt the Hall. They appear to be quite benign, but it is not until much later that certain ghosts behaved in a frightening way to living humans. There are many Strelley ghosts that explore these walls, but exactly who they are and why they still haunt the hall will be for you and the Uk Ghost Hunts Team to find out.
At Strelley Hall, experiments you will be able to take part in include: Ouija boards; table tipping; glass divination; EVPS sessions; séance’s; lone villages. Book your tickets early for this truly magnificent building and ghostly investigation.
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St Johns Museum Ghost Hunts – Warwick. 2014.
St Johns Museum
Warwick – St Johns Museum
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Date: 12th July 2014
Time: 9.00 pm – 2:00am
Address:
St Johns Museum
Warwick,
CV34 4NF
Day: Saturday
Price: £39.00 Click to buy from UKGH.
http://ukghosthunts.com/warwick-st-johns-museum-p-79.html
Deposit: £15 – £24 To be paid on the night of event
St John’s House Museum is a historic house located in Warwick, just east of the town centre, in Warwickshire, England.
It is now a museum, run by Warwickshire County Council, and has had a varied history spanning almost 400 years. To the side of the house is a small garden belonging to St John’s and to the rear is the large St. Nicholas’ Park.
The existing building is not the first on the site. The first recorded one was a hospital dedicated to St John the Baptist which was founded at some time during the 12th century the reign of Henry II. John was a popular choice of dedication during this period and served the double purpose of giving casual overnight boarding and foods to poor travellers, and for ongoing help for the local poor and ill.
After changing hands during the monastic dissolution the building was altered almost beyond recognition in 1626 and transformed into the current building. In 1788, George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick purchased the property and it stayed in the family until1960. During this period, in 1815 it was turned from a family residence into a private school
In the 1960s, the property was passed from the Earls of Warwick to Warwickshire County Council who turned it into a museum which it still remains. The ground floor is composed of social history exhibits and a re-creation of the school that occupied the building. On the first floor is a museum dedicated to the history of the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers.
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Ordsall Hall Ghost Hunt 2014 – June
Ordsall Hall Ghost Investigation
Manchester
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Date: 14th June 2014
Time: 9pm – 2am
Address:
Ordsall Hall
322 Ordsall Lane
Salford, Manchester
M5 3AN
Price: £39
Ordsall Hall is a historic house and a former stately home in Ordsall, an area of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It dates back more than 750 years, although the oldest surviving parts of the present hall were built in the 15th century.
Ordsall Hall is a formerly moated Tudor mansion, the oldest parts of which were built during the 15th century, although there has been a house on the site for over 750 years. David de Hulton is recorded as the owner of the original hall, in 1251. The manor of Ordsall came into the 
possession of the Radclyffe family in about 1335, but it was not until 1354 that Sir John Radclyffe established his right of inheritance.
During the 1340s Sir John Radclyffe campaigned with Edward III in France, distinguishing himself at the battles of Caen, Crècy and Calais. As a reward for his service, the king allowed Sir John to take some Flemish weavers back to his Ordsall estate, where he built cottages for them to live in. English weaving skills at that time were poor, and textiles from Manchester were considered to be of particularly poor quality, so the Flemish weavers were employed in instructing the local weavers. They also started up a silk weaving industry, the foundation for Manchester’s later cotton industry.
The Dutch humanist and theologian Erasmus stayed at Ordsall Hall in 1499, and described it thus:
The original cruck hall was replaced by the present Great Hall in 1512, after Sir Alexander Radclyffe was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire. The hall is typical of others built at that time in the northwest of England, although it is one of the largest, and is unusual for the period in having no wall fireplace. The hall has an elaborate roof structure, as in the similar Rufford Old Hall. There is a slightly later small room above the large oriel bay, which may be an early addition as at Samlesbury Hall.
Other alterations and additions were made during the 17th century, including a modest brick house added onto the west end in 1639, perhaps intended as a home for Sir Alexander’s bailiff, as he himself no longer used the hall as his main residence by that time. The house was built at 90° to the timber-framed building, to which it was later joined. During the Civil War Sir Alexander, as a Royalist, was imprisoned and suffered financial hardship. Reduced means eventually forced his heir, John Radclyffe, into selling the hall to Colonel John Birch in 1662, thus ending more than 300 years of his family’s occupation
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